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["Michal H. Tyc" <mht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Hans-Georg, Hi Glenn,

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:37:38 +0001, hanshampel@xxxxxxxxxxx (Hans-Georg Hampel) 
wrote:

> I tried to use the authenticated mail upload with yahoo. But it did not
> work. I can use the yahoo-pop3 with winxxx and mozilla-thunderbird.
> And yahoo needs auth. upload. I tried normal upload and in smtp.log I
> found a message to read some help about yahoo and auth.mail.stuff..
> I am in a LAN. Maybe I have to change some settings on the router and
> firewall?

Can we have a look at your SMTP.LOG? (Please remove your password
before posting the file, otherwise it could be easily decoded.)

Although Arachne's authenticated SMTP works perfectly with the mail
server of my University and with my mht@bttr-software account,
I just noticed that it doesn't work with my local ISP's server.

The reason is that I have different POP3 username (a random string
assigned by the ISP, say, uuuu@domain) and e-mail address (which
I could choose myself, say, aaaa@domain). The server needs
uuuu@domain when it asks for (base64 encoded) username, but only
accepts aaaa@domain in the MAIL FROM: command. So, when I set
'AuthSMTPusername' to aaaa@domain, authentication fails, and when
I set it to uuuu@domain, authentication succeeds, but the sender
is rejected ("no such user"). The solution would be to use
'AuthSMTPusername' for authentication and 'eMail' for MAIL FROM:.
After some short investigation, I guess that this would require
some changes in how these parameters are passed as an URL
(currently it is, if I remember clear,
"smtp://user@domain:password@server:port/files_to_send") from
PROTOCOL.C to SENDMAIL.C. But I think that Glenn is the right
person to explain this in greater detail. And I have no idea
whether your problem with Yahoo! Mail is of the same kind.

Anyway, Glenn, can you think about any other unusual situations
where the current implementation of authenticated SMTP may need
some extensions?

Greetings,

Michal


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